The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 23, ahead of George Mann on 21.5, Andy Reed on 21, Toby Brown, Mark Halliwell and Marguerite Turner all on 20, Jayme Bryla on 19.5 and Robert Rea on 18. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson with 20.5, narrowly ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 20, Maura and Phil Parsons with 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 19. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.
Today's front pages
1. The Government missed the deadline of 4pm on Thursday when it failed to do what?
2. The Government announced it was closing a loophole in the law that allowed companies to give away free samples of what to children?3. What is the name of the MP who was 'administratively suspended’ from the Labour party pending an investigation into reports of 'incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour’?
4. Travellers faced problems on Saturday after what failed at UK airports?
5. The price of what was reported to have fallen by an average of 3.4 per cent - the fastest annual pace for nearly 14 years?
6. Police investigating the deaths of a 17-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl in Bournemouth impounded a pleasure boat with what name?
7. Which charity dropped Phillip Schofield as an ambassador saying it was 'no longer appropriate’ for it to work with the television presenter?
8. Singer and presenter Jane McDonald was announced as the replacement host for which event this weekend following Phillip Schofield's departure from ITV?
9. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the defeated Republican People's Party, denounced which country’s election result as 'the most unfair election in recent years'?
10. Who confronted English referee Anthony Taylor in the car park after the Europa League final in Budapest, telling him he was a ‘fucking disgrace’?
11. The White House said US President Joe Biden fell while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Colorado because he tripped over what?
12. An open letter by specialists warned that what posed a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war?
13. A wildfire believed to be the largest by area on record in the UK broke out in which region on Sunday?
14. Five men who made more than £7million by illegally doing what were jailed by Derby Crown Court?
15. Which country approved tough new anti-homosexuality legislation which included life sentences and the death penalty for aggravated cases?
16. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Oxford Union to protest against a talk by academic Kathleen Stock, saying her views were what?
17. At a public meeting, NASA said it did not use what term any more, due to the stigma attached it, and instead opted for unidentified anomalous phenomena?
18. Which country became the first to announce it will print warnings including 'cigarettes cause cancer' and 'poison in every puff’ on every individual cigarette?
19. What was the name of ITV’s health and science editor who died aged 45?
20. Which football team will play in the top flight for the first time in 31 years after beating Coventry City on penalties?
21. Fluorescein, a non-toxic substance, was blamed for turning a canal green in which city?
22. A man and a teenage boy were arrested on suspicion of theft after what animal, a two-month-old called Moon, was stolen from a farm in Hampshire and found two weeks later in Buckinghamshire?
23. Comedians Steve Coogan, Paul Whitehouse and Lee Mack put on a show as part of a protest against the discharge of sewage into which body of water?
24. Actor Derek Thompson, announcing his retirement from the BBC drama Casualty, said: 'The time has come for me to hang up ___’s scrubs after the most wonderful 37 years’. What is the missing name?
25. Prince William was filmed saying to his wife Kate '__ __, let’s keep going. We’ll see you later' while she was chatting with the bride at a royal wedding in Jordan. What is the missing two-word phrase?
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